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Môr Leidr

@bartiddu.bsky.social

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Prof of Child Health (retired) Interests: art; history; children’s rights; 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿. 🏳️‍⚧️ & 🇵🇸 rights are human rights Banner: 1 of our dogs contemplating his existence in a shaving mirror Profile: the other channelling Rousseau’s tiger🐅 No DMs (I can’t access) 🙏🏻

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · Jul 3

Painting by Rousseau “Tiger surprised in a tropical storm”

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 11h

Hahahaha

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 6d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

I often think that from all those documentaries on the rise of the Nazis which have appeared on our TV screens over the decades, and all those school WW2 history courses, the only lesson we’ve really learnt well from them all is how to do effective propaganda.
Goebbels lives, sadly.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · Jan 9

Starmer's three pledges:
1. If you're sick - work.
2. If you're cold - freeze.
3. If you're poor - starve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Benefit claimants should have to look for jobs, says Keir Starmer

The prime minister has said the public will have to make

www.bbc.co.uk

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

I think you should make a formal complaint to NHS England
This denialism is getting beyond silly now and puts people at risk.

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

Removed from where?

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

Classic narcissist & abuser behaviours from him
What a wally too - no insight into how this looks!

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a bit of everything - bit has gone west since Emma Barnett joined She’s another arrogant Tory plant

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

And in:
•prison
•those dying in police custody
•permanent school exclusions
•Covid deaths
•victims of stop and search
•those whose severe mental
Illness is diagnosed by the criminal justice system instead of the NHS
•maternal mortality figures (women dying of complications of pregnancy)

David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

As Toby Young points out, Black people are over-represented in advertising. He somehow forgot to mention they are over-represented in poverty, unemployment and homelessness statistics too.

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

“If someone says they are in bed with flu, it’s almost certainly Covid, given that the number of people admitted to hospital for Covid last week was 50 times higher than the number admitted for flu!”

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

You aren’t wrong
But a minorish correction : #BBC Radio4 News and Politics is being/has been destroyed
I stopped listening to to the Today programme over 10 yrs ago and PM once Evan Davis arrived
Most of the rest remains pretty good lots of good drama, stories, science, arts reviews etc

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 10 Oct 1800 enslaved blacksmith and abolitionist Gabriel Prosser was executed in Virginia alongside his two brothers and 23 followers. They had planned a revolt of enslaved people in Richmond, but were betrayed and captured stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8240...

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

Singing Jerusalem is Englishness Dan! (A clue in the lyrics)
I agree that we’ve achieved much; but there remains much to improve too.
One only has to look at ethnic data on, eg, school exclusions, involvement in the CJS, stop & search stats, to see there’s no room for complacency
#StructuralRacism

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

#BBCQT

Always bring the receipts.

Happy birthday to my friend and colleague Nigel Farage aka Mr Brexit.

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent op Ed about the issues with single vaccines published in response to Trumps Statement about single shots for Measles, mumps and rubella as well as CDC call for single vaccine manufacturer 🧵🧪#HealthPolicy

CIDRAP Op-Ed: Why the CDC director is wrong about the MMR vaccine

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

And, while we are at it, let’s award posthumous Nobel Peace Prizes to Hitler & Pol Pot & Idi Amin & Sauron

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2d

A columnist still at WaPo.

Headline: "Yes, Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize."

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

What happened to anyone who seriously threatened to reverse any part of the Thatcherite revolution? Who was it that enforced those penalties. There’s your answer, and there’s who is to blame.

The Guardian Y @theguardian.com
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Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? |
Martin Kettle

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Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones.bsky.social · 2d

2/ As Responsible Statecraft has reported, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a multi-million dollar campaign to target US Christians with pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian propaganda. Read it here > responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-influ...

Israel wants to hire Chris Pratt and Steph Curry

The Jewish state is seeking to target Christian Evangelical churches for support, using celebrities and an anti-Palestinian message in a new $3.2M effort

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

He used to lie
But now, if I met him in A&E for the first time, I think I might conclude he was confabulating
His untruths are more bizarre than before, & he really seems to believe he has stopped 7 wars.
(Including the one between Azerbaijan & Albania the rest of the world knew nothing about)

Confabulation – Scottish Acquired Brain Injury Network

www.acquiredbraininjury-education.scot.nhs.uk

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

…the wellbeing of the common people of Great Britain.”

Incredible the JCVI isn’t bound to consider the prevention & alleviation of suffering when determining Covid19 vaccine policy
The human costs of Covid & #LongCovid are entirely ignored & marginalised in decision making
Only £££ considered

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

In a second reading of the NHS Bill in the House of Commons (April 1946) Aneurin Bevan said the #NHS
“…will keep very many people alive who might otherwise be dead. It will relieve suffering. It will produce higher standards for the medical profession. It will be a great contribution towards …

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

This is unsurprising
The pandemic showed how vulnerable our scientific community was to politicisation & corruption
Excellent editorial from 2020 in the #BMJ by @kamranabbasi.bsky.social (now Editor of same) on this
And it has only got worse since:
The JCVI & UKHPA are thoroughly b*ggered

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

This is unsurprising
The pandemic showed how vulnerable our scientific community was to politicisation
Excellent editorial from 2020 in the BMJ by Kamran Abbasi (now Editor of same) on this

www.bmj.com/content/371/...

Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science

When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availabili...

www.bmj.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

We found that the UK’s top scientific institutions, from the Met Office to the UK Health Security Agency, have inadequate institutional defences.

If an incoming government wanted to weaken the role of science and evidence in policy making, it could do so shockingly fast. 2/11

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 on UK Covid #vaccine policy, the #JCVI, and #LongCovid

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

Totally agree 🧵
The JCVI was hijacked by minimisers & advised by them too (inc. by the RCPCH)
Our vaccine policy seems out of kilter with other advanced economies

I’ve been suffering from asthma, bronchitis & sinusitis since a nasty Covid infection in May (5m ago) - little response to steroids….